Word: starks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...settlement which was not really a success." Reconstructing a gathering his family had held some 20 years earlier, he recalls a tableau: his father depressed, his mother on the verge of hysteria. Even the Francoeurs' idea of Catholicism cannot comfort: "It was a religion, not of recourse, but stark truth: death is what we live for, and as terrible as it is, to die is better than to live...
SURPRISINGLY, the cinematography -- often neglected in mass market comedies--really stands out in So Fine. Bergman fills his movie with very precise and stark images, from the perfect whiteness of a steam bath to the glaring neon colors of a disco. Though inconcequential to the plot, the film's most brilliantly conceived scene is an imaginary advertisement for the So Fine blue jeans, in which set, graphics, color, music and choreography all combine to create a powerful image which far outclasses anything currently shown...
...jubilant occasion was the repatriation of Guernica, Pablo Picasso's stark protest against the savagery of war, which had come to symbolize Spanish hopes for democracy. Picasso had been commissioned by the Republican government of Spain to paint the mural for the Spanish pavilion at the 1937 International Exhibition in Paris...
...even a motorcycle escort. Those who want a more stylish send-off can choose a top-of-the-line bronze casket for $3,682.25, much cheaper than the private equivalent sold for $8,900. For the truly cost conscious there is also a no-frills, Boot Hill model-a stark pine box covered with gray cloth...
...fencing. "You have to know this border by heart," says the pilot. "You could get yourself shot at." His passengers are appreciative. "We call those places 'Gotchas,' " he adds pleasantly. Back down on the ground the visitors are taken to a checkpoint to look up at the stark observation tower on the other side. We are asked not to make gestures, friendly or otherwise...